Rory Stewart Quotes & Sayings
32 most famous Rory Stewart quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'”
“September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.”
“I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.”
“Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.”
“I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn't be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I'm not so sure he was.”
“The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the map. Al Qaeda, traditionally, are much more educated, middle-class people, often from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia, North Africa.”
“I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.”
“If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.”
“In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.”
“Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.”
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